Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
thief or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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thief + -like
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Examples
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He thought it lazy and thieflike to go with one's hands behind one's back.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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Thus _highwayman, woodman_, and _horsecourser_, require an explanation, but of _thieflike_, or _coachdriver_, no notice was needed, because the primitives contain the meaning of the compounds.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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_horsecourser_, require an explanation; but of _thieflike_ or
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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